skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It’s sad to see smart, motivated young people get their opinions on the job market from cesspools like Reddit and TikTok, which teach them that trying is lame and the only way to retain your dignity is to withhold your effort from a job, lie your way through interviews, and “quiet quit” by testing the limits of how little you can. Reddit and TikTok swoop in to rationalize this behavior as the fault of companies and CEOs, not their own decisions.

I was given Tech Lead duties after being hired as a Senior SWE, but when it came time for the promotion and pay bump at the end of this year, I kept my current title and only got a 3% pay increase. All of the feedback was good. If there was criticism or bad opinions, it was withheld. I have to wait until next year to see if I can get that now while still carrying those duties, which is ample time to look for new positions.

I was also shown a chart where I was under the 50th percentile (roughly 33%) of pay of other Senior SWEs at the company. That was a nice disclosure, but they don't want to do anything about it. That is patently saying they believe I am below average even though I am doing regular senior SWE work plus tech lead duties without the title and pay. But they don't have any feedback for that. It's possible I just accepted a lower salary and they want to keep it as low as possible.

There could be other reasons why I didn't get it, but I have to guess at those reasons. I'm not going to do more than the minimum if they don't give me actionable feedback and don't reward taking on additional duties. Their move is to not give rewards for working harder, my move is job hopping for that increase.

You can't have many of these experiences before you become jaded. I am definitely not spending a minute outside of work when I take up additional duties on the job and still don't get rewarded for it.

I'm going to act like a business of one and just take as much as I can for as little as possible throughout the career. If that means spamming LLM applications for the next position, then so be it I guess.

Playing the blame game about whether workers or businesses caused this is pretty pointless, but the simple truth is that many people get far more money for far less effort than a Senior SWE (and certainly more than manual labor at all levels below where I'm at).

All of these stories we hear paints a picture of how the world really works, so can you really blame people for getting ahead that way and not taking the path of hard work when it doesn't reward you? I don't want to be taken advantage of and be a sucker - do you?
For Christmas I purchased an N64 +4 gamepads +GoldenEye +SmashBros +MarioKart

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Instant group nostalgia, a $100 Craigslist success.
I think it suks that your job got lost to a foreign worker. It's certainly no consolation that you are merely the latest casualty of globalization, along with your US manufacturing workers.

I say that sincerely- losing your job suks.

Of course the root of the problem, for you and steel workers, US that American consumers care more about money than where something is sourced. They buy the cheapest car, cheapest steel, cheapest computer etc. So to survive companies have to reduce costs, which inevitably means off-shoring.

Tarifs are a solution, but are simpler to do on physical imports than on remote labor. Basically though they help by driving up local prices, allowing say American Steel to compete.

Yes, prices going up (inflation) is a side effect, and yes salaries have to remain fixed (else the import is still cheaper) so disposal income, and hence standard of living have to come down. That's a feature not a bug.

Alternatively taxes could be slashed, requiring massive reductions on spending on military, social security and Medicare. That would mean some job losses in the military-industrial sector, but frankly that's probably a good thing.

Social Security and Medicare are unpopular to cut, but its easily done, and a necessity to make significant cuts. I think the electorate has given a mandate to the govt to do this, do I expect they'll do it. (Trump campaigned on this, so its pretty much what people clearly want.)

I know attempts at American isolationist policies have not worked in the past, but I expect it'll be different this time.

The alternative to this approach would be higher taxes on companies and the mega rich - along with reduced military spending and increases to the social security net. That's the route most of the other countries took, but how many billionaires can Poland boast?

Sure they're sucking up programmer jobs, but there aren't too many companies complaining about that.
Depending on the language you use VScode might not be any more performant because it probably uses the same LSP on top of electron instead of elisp. I write Rust/C++ on a sizable project and since everyone depends on rust-analyzer* all IDEs are just unbearably slow and mostly useless in language integration beyond basic refactors and click to go to definition.

* except RustRover but that comes with its own set of issues
Few people are shown the enormous downsides of too much government regulation. It's hard to see on your own. Every industry uses special interest lobbying (like the taxi industry did trying to block ride sharing) and usually gets laws passed that harm consumers and benefit themselves. The biggest example is the American Medical Association, which says they will limit the number of new doctors each year for your "safety", but in reality only do it to increase wages for their members. This is why 27% of GDP goes to healthcare. Even totally eliminating insurance companies would only reduce this to 25%.

Fight unnecessary government regulations, as they really do hurt you.
Probably because Germany’s standard of living is still comparatively high.
They would’ve outsourced regardless of remote or not. It’s all about cost. Employers are hedging after they felt they lost control during the “Great Resignation” and the labor cost pressures they faced from it. Remote also makes it too easy for workers to find other opportunities, versus being restricted to opportunities within a commute distance. Unless it’s offshore remote of course.

This is not without peril due to structural demographics. You can only outsource so much.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/hard-to-find-a-job-... | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42361817

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-18/us-faces-... | https://archive.today/Lyr5t
Yeah the internal representation of organic neural networks are also weird - check out the signal processing that occurs between the retina and the various parts of the visual cortex before any decent information can emerge from the signal - David Marr's 1980s book Vision is a mathematically chewy treatise on this. This leads me to start thinking that human intuition may well caused by different neural network subsystems feeding processed data into other subsystems where consciousness and thus intuition and explanation emerges.

Organic neural networks are pretty energy efficient in comparison- although still decently inefficient compared to other body systems - so there is the capacity to build things out to the scale required, assuming my read on what's going on there is correct, that is. So it's not clear to me that the energy inefficiency of ANNs can be sufficiently resolved to enable these multiple quasi-independent subsystems to be built at the scale required. Not even if these interesting looking trinomial neural nets which are matrix addition based rather than multiplication come to dominate the ANN scene.

While I was thinking this comment through I realised there's a possible interpretation wherin human activity induced climate change is an emergent property of the relative energy inefficiency of neural architecture.
I recommend trying out Redragon Horus K261, it took a while to get used to but I like it a lot now. It's a low profile keyb.
At least for Facebook, if the information is not publicly available via Google it’s because the content creator has decided not to make their content public.

Google very much can crawl information on Facebook and Instagram that people have made “public”

As far as “social dynamics”, do you remember Cambridge Analytics? Why would I want my social graph to be publicly available.

It’s bad enough that people have their contacts synced with Facebook.
"MOM HANG UP THE PHONE I'M ZERG-RUSHING!"
Street cars != Intercity Rail

Also I'd argue street cars are way worse than busses which have route flexibility.

The bigger problem is Americans don't like being around other Americans and really don't like public transit.

It's not some giant conspiracy.
> This must be the first consumer or commercial product implementing homomorphic encryption is it not?

Not really, it's been around for a bit now. From 2021:

> The other major reason we’re talking about HE and FL now is who is using them. According to a recent repository of PETs, there are 19 publicly announced pilots, products, and proofs of concept for homomorphic encryption and federated analytics (another term for federated learning) combined. That doesn’t seem like a lot … but the companies offering them include Apple,7 Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, and the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, and users and investors include DARPA, Intel, Oracle, Mastercard, and Scotiabank. Also, the industries involved in these early projects are among the largest. Use cases are led by health and social care and finance, with their use in digital and crime and justice also nontrivial (figure 1).

https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/technology...

I do wonder why we don't hear about it more often though. "Homomorphic encryption" as a buzzword has a lot of headline potential, so I'm surprised companies don't brag about it more.
Even as we speak, scams are going on where pretend-employers are backdooring the computers of applicants that way.

I fear the only applicants who would agree are also the ones who can't be trusted with any employee access to your corporate resources.
Spain has a nice digital nomad visa and housing costs are reasonable. After five years, you can apply for permanent residency. After another five years, citizenship and an EU passport. Several EU countries will support pension and social security income as income needed to qualify for residency, if this applies.

Agree Europe is more humane to the human, and where you can optimize for quality of life.
Not citizen but resident of EU country.

Last summer Spain’s Renfe offered huge discount for a pass for people under 31. Only for paper version though which is slightly less convenient but worth it anyway.
I guess other eu countries could have similar seasonal discounts.
What Happened the Night Dylan Went Electric?
The nice thing about casual viewers like me is I can rewatch and catch something new.
Japan is almost all mountains, it's one of the worst geographies to build high speed rail where tunnels and turn radii need to be especially large. But they pulled it off anyway. The bullet train initially only connected metros like Tokyo and Osaka but today runs all the way to many remoter areas. The most recently added line connects Fukui prefecture, population 780k.

The US has many areas with suitable population density to be served by high speed rail, and with more accomodative geography than Japan. It's just that in the US, it was considered fine to use government funds and authority to bulldoze land for the interstate system, but not for high speed rail.
On the contrary, if they assign importance to "canon" they are putting the corporation on a pedestal, as it is the corporation which defines the canon.
In response to your question in the parent comment, no, I do not use iCloud. And I do not sync any of the things you mentioned here. If someone already consented to using iCloud to store their photos then I would not consider the service mentioned this post to be such a big issue, because Apple would already have the data on their servers with the user's consent.

edit: I will just add, even if we accept the argument that it's extremely secure and impossible to leak information, then where do we draw the line between "extremely secure" and "somewhat secure" and "not secure at all"? Should we trust Apple to make this decision for us?
Often it’s 100 applicants in the first hour.

My advice for both sides: don’t use job boards. Use your own website.
Some iOS apps synchronize data with standard protocols (e.g. IMAP, WebDAV, CalDAV) to cloud or self-hosted services.
Speaking as a contractor since 2017, I have given up using recruitment agencies in the UK to find work.

I am likely the number one expert, in my field, globally. I apply for roles which specifically ask for an SME in my field. There is no question here of skills, and it is as certain as it can be without actually knowing that I am a light year ahead of all other applicants (because there is practically no one else actually qualified in my field). I'm not flapping my ego, this is how things look to actually be.

I find now I never get even contacted by agencies.

I think they are not reading my CV/application, and I think this is happening because they are flooded - hundreds of applications in the first hour. They take the first person who looks good enough (and they're not good - there are practically no people in this field who actually have skills and experience, as opposed to just "I've worked with") and run with that, and then turn to filling the next contract.

The upshot of this is that it doesn't matter how good you are, because your CV isn't going to be seen, not unless you apply in the first ten minutes or so.

You have to play that game, and automate your applications, to be seen.

So the question is, if you don't want to play that game, how now do you find companies who need skills?
That analogy still doesn't justify coming to your house and killing your family.
Thank you, I appreciate that. Unfortunately no update since I sent them the verification they requested yesterday. Still locked out 3 days later. Just trying to do some damage control at this point. I'll keep this post updated if I hear anything new.
It's not much different from using some 3rd party linter for another language, like Psalm for PHP or whatever people use for Python. The only difference is Psalm checks special comment syntax (which TypeScript can also do with JSDoc) and Python has basic type annotation syntax in its spec.

Once you realize that TypeScript is a very advanced linter rather than a language, it's much less ridiculous sounding. I used TypeScript on some medium sized JS backends without using TS syntax using the `checkJs` flag and heavy use of JSDoc comments. It offered almost the same checking capabilities, just with a more annoying syntax.
Survival of the fittest? I really don't have a problem with this. Artistry is hard - not everyone can make it. 1000 plays is a failure - financially. It probably costs Spotify more to payout the transaction for such a low amount of plays than the amount they are paying out.
Perhaps it’s just my bubble, but I mainly see this happen with people who do knowledge work which could definitely be 100% completed online.

Even if this is just a “tiny fraction” of workers, allowing them the liberty to easily pursue their career while also maintaining close relations with their family would be good, not merely something to write off as negligible. Every human life matters.
This was said just 2 years ago:

> When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it's electric cars that don't drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he'd be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, "drop to your knees and beg," and he would have done it...

I doubt either of them forgot about it. Smarter men than Musk were dropped by Trump before.
The Spotify app started suggesting me albums it labels as "Sponsored recommendations" a few months ago and it's really put me off. Now it's hard to trust how good it is at finding new music if Spotify is admitting to deliberately excluding most of its database and prefiltering down to its sponsors.

You're right though, the rest of the things you mention do make it much tougher to decide on whether to switch and what to switch to.
> the US would violate the treaty

Other parties were already violating the treaty by not spending 2%. It's simple Tit for tat.

> Trump claimed (again) that the less-spending-than-recommended nations somehow owed payments to the US

The US was shouldering the cost of international security (being a hegemon) You take European stability and welfare for granted, we can't know what the world would look like without pax Americana but I'm certain it would be worse. The 'rules based international community' You couldn't even stop a genocide on the EUs front door.

> for damn good reasons

Hopefully I've demonstrated otherwise
I think it does address the main problem. What he is saying is that multiple layers of security is used to ensure (mathematically and theoretically proved) that there is no risk in sending the data, because it is encrypted and sent is such a way that apple or any third party will never be able to read/access it (again, based on theoretically provable math) . If there is no risk there is no harm, and then there is a different need for ‘by default’, opt in/out, notifications etc.

The problem with this feature is that we cannot verify that Apple’s implementation of the math is correct and without security flaws. Everyone knows there is security flaws in all software, and this implementation is not open (I.e. we cannot review the code, and even if we could review code we cannot verify that the provided code was the code used in the iOS build). So, we have to trust Apple did not make any mistakes in their implementation.
While it's true that chess is a young man's game, Magnus has not lost his ability to flow absolute dookie positions into mate like no one else under any controls.
It has to do with the way power and incentives are configured within the project, and therefore what can be expected of the maintainers in the future.

For some people/use cases, the threat of developers rug-pulling a tool you depend on is not a big deal as long as it's good right now. But in many situations the tool which has less features but also less incentive to rug-pull wins out.
Arc Search is what Gemini dreams of being. I’ve found it to be incredibly useful tool to cut through a lot of the crap.
It's /r/fuckcars leaking into HN.
SF officials want to control everything you do and everything you think.
Ah, so there is no conclusion that russia has cut any cables, just speculation, and last I checked having radio listening equipment wasn't illegal. So, there is that.

Is there an issue with Russia spoofing GPS? They are at war. Ukraine does it over their territory and I imagine you are okay with it, and so does Israel, who is also at war.

Are you suggesting that you would be outraged if your country was at war and spoofed GPS? Maybe if you think more you might be more open about why these things happen.

I don't mean to offend you, but I am okay if I do.
That’s a good idea as well, I will look into this but it would be nice to not have things like healthcare tied to my job which only seems feasible by leaving the country. I’m not expecting moving to magically fix all my problems but the trade off seems more worth it to me now (lower salary for better balance in life)
Alternatively they might also use a different model that has different response traits.
The new designs are really close to "trad" designs of stained glass which often depicted scenes from the bible, saints etc.

How is this concept: https://media.beauxarts.com/uploads/2024/12/web000_36qn6km.j... worse than the existing windows: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Notre_Da... ?

For reference: https://www.gettyimages.se/fotografier/catholic-church-stain...
I used Fedora 40 on a ThinkPad P14s (Intel Arc+NVIDIA) config for work, it was great. Now I've upgraded to Fedora 41, and it's still rock-solid
I mean, the matrices obviously change during training. I take it your point is that LLMs are trained once and then frozen, whereas humans continuously learn and adapt to their environment. I agree that this is a critical distinction. But it has nothing to do with “meaningful internal structure.”
The US has changed drastically in the last 200 years, in large part from the contributions of immigrants. The US has been a country of immigration for most of its history. We were taught (in the 90s) that it is the melting pot of the world and that is part of what made us great
The "network" mention was in reply to your comment about "participating in a network" which was never the case for one's personal photos (unless explicitly shared on a social network I guess).

I did read the article, yes :) Maybe our photos are not sent bit-by-bit but enough data from the photos is being sent to be able to infer a location (and possibly other details) so it is the same thing: my personal data is being sent to Apple's servers (directly or indirectly, partially or fully) without my explicit consent.

At least the last time they tried to scan everyone's photos (in the name of the children) they pinky promised they'd only do it before uploading to iCloud, now they're doing it for everyone's photos all the time - it's disgusting.
I assume you protested the 2022 Russian mobilization as well?
None of that is relevant to my point. You seem to be trying to catch people in some kind of gotcha instead of engaging honestly with the problem at hand. But alright, I’ll bite.

Yes, I always start with clean installs, both on iOS and on macOS. Sometimes I even restart fresh on the same device, as I make sure my hardware lasts. I don’t sync bookmarks, I keep them in Pinboard and none of them has any private or remotely identifiable information anyway. I don’t care about saving browser history either, in fact I have it set to periodically auto-clear, which is a feature in Safari.
That’s a little pot calling the kettle black. The Spotify app has been horrendous for years, ever since they started jamming in all the podcasts and garbage.
If you’re aiming to lose weight safely the rule of thumb is 3 lbs a week. 3000kcal per pound works out to an average deficit of about 1280 calories per day. Max.

Obese people can lose a bit more under doctor supervision. My understanding is that it’s tied partially to % of body weight lost per week and partly to what your organs can process, which does not increase with body mass.
> both sides or the governments can step in and start regulating

How could regulations help?

Both sides already have good incentives to match positions to candidates; yet we are collectively failing.
It's certainly a mutual escalation issue. Even a few bad-actors on either side can catalyze more bad-actors on the other, especially since most of the badness involves abuse of scale.
Apple keyboards: yes. I so rarely see a preference stated that matches my own that I am compelled to spend a full comment in agreement.

I think part of it is that the keyboard itself is thin. There’s less of a physical object to raise forearms and contort wrists over.
>On Android, NetGuard uses a "local VPN" to firewall outgoing traffic. Could the same be done on iOS, or does Apple network traffic bypass VPNs? Lockdown mentions ads, but not Apple servers, https://lockdownprivacy.com/.

Why is NetGuard more trustworthy than Apple?